Education for Responsible Democratic Citizenship

Project Information

DEMOCRAT

Grant agreement ID: 101095106

DOI

10.3030/101095106

Project closed

EC signature date 9 December 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 951 910,00

EU contribution

€ 2 951 909,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (6)

RDC & EfD: Vision and competence framework

Conceptual framework and policy vision for responsible democratic citizenship (RDC) and education for democracy (EfD), including a competence framework of RDC.

National reports: Education inequalities & political participation

Six national reports to contextualise and explain the results of statistical analysis of EU/international surveys on education and political participation. It includes policy recommendations for the education system - based on national literature and, when relevant, additional national surveys

Policy brief: European EfD curricula

Policy brief summarising the outline of European Education for Democracy (EfD) curricula - based on D4.1.

Dissemination and exploitation strategy

Dissemination and exploitation strategy - defines partners' responsibilities, target groups, key messages, tools, channels and exploitation routes

Design of local pilot projects

Conceptual framework providing - common criteria for designing local pilot projects (education objectives, learning approaches, logic model, education levels, time schedule),- common criteria for conducting self-evaluation (evaluation dimensions, methods and indicators) - based on D1.2, D2.1 and D4.1 - an assessment framework providing common criteria for ex-ante and ex-post assessment of responsible democratic citizenship (RDC) competences through the local pilot projects.

Outline of European EfD curricula

Outline of European Education for Democracy (EfD) curricula as a multi-layered learning programme with different levels of generalisation. Main focus on primary education (8-10 years) and secondary education (14-16 years), including related teacher training. Drawing on analysis of Education for Democracy (EfD) strategies, curricula, learning approaches and pedagogical material at the national and international levels - based on desk research and qualitative fieldwork.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data management plan 1

Data management plan 1 describes the data that will generated by the project and how data will be acquired, managed, analysed and stored, including compliance with European Commission Ethics Requirements. The compliance with the Ethics requirements will be update separately in month 12, 18, 36.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Agora platform

The Agora platform is linked to the project website to foster project visibility and wider engagement. It acts as an interactive tool to channel debate, exchange of information and experiences.

Publications

Monographic books (2)

Learning Situation: Democrac

Author(s): DEMOCRAT & FUHEM
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.183287

Situación de Aprendizaje: Democracia

Author(s): DEMOCRAT & FUHEM
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18329990

Other (13)

Policy Brief Education for ResponsibleDemocratic Citizenship. A European Vision

Author(s): Georgios Kostakos Karsten Krüger Fabian Virchow
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17777839

Outline of a European EfD Curriculum

Author(s): Hytti, M.; Sandström, N.; Kalev,L.; Mallon, B. & Eren, E
Published in: Deliverable approved, 2024
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14512483

Design of local pilot projects

Author(s): Kalev, L.; Hallik, M.; Sandström, N.; Hytti, M.; Salamon, E, Horgas, J. & Krüger, K.
Published in: Deliverable approved, 2024
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14513594

Policy Brief European Curricula for Education for Democracy

Author(s): Sandström, N., Hytti, M.
Published in: Deliverable approved, 2024
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14512745

Education inequalities and political participation

Author(s): Warat, Marat; Krüger, Karsten; Montolio, Daniel; Ostafińska-Molik, Barbara; Sekuła, Paulina
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18341392

Practitioner brief: guidelines for scaling up transformative EfD

Author(s): Mallon, B.; Eren, E.; Lalor, J.; Rami, J.
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2026
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18754274

Evaluation of Local Pilot Projects

Author(s): Kostakos, G., Serra, J.A. & Salamon, E, (Eds:)
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.19199713

National reports: Education inequalities and political participation

Author(s): Marta Warat; Paulina Sekuła; Barbara Ostafińska-Molik; Maria Caprile; Karsten Krüger
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14550660

Conceptual Framework and Vision: Responsible Democratic Citizenship and Education for Democracy

Author(s): Toscano, Beatriz; Kalev, Leif; Kruger, Karsten; Kostakos, Georgios
Published in: Deliverable Draft, 2023
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.8418290

Policy Brief Education inequalities and political participation

Author(s): Krüger, K.; Montolio, D.; Warat, M.; Sekuła, P.; Ostafińska-Molik, B
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15302926

Conceptual Framework and Vision: Responsible Democratic Citizenship and Education for Democracy DEMOCRAT

Author(s): Krüger, Karsten Hallik, Maarja Kalev, Leif Kostakos, Giorgios Toscano, Beatriz Virchow, Fabian
Published in: Deliverable approved, 2024
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14044316

Policy Brief Scaling up Transformative Education for Democracy

Author(s): Mallon, B.; Eren, E.; Lalor, J.; Rami, J.
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2026
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18405015

Comparative Assessment of National Living Labs and Pilot Interventions

Author(s): Serra, J.A.; Kostakos, G. & Salamon, E.
Published in: Deliverable submitted, 2025
Publisher: DEMOCRAT
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17989883

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Emotional work in a safe–brave–compassionate ecology: staying with discomfort in education for democracy

Author(s): Maija Hytti, Niclas Sandström, Kalum Bodfield
Published in: Frontiers in Political Science, Issue 8, 2026, ISSN 2673-3145
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FPOS.2026.1761729

Educating for a Just World: Empowering K-12 Students as Global Democratic Digital Citizens

Author(s): Hughes, J.; Robb, J.A. & Gadanidis, M.
Published in: Journal of Digital Life and Learning, Issue Vol. 3, No. 2, 2024, ISSN 2564-3185
Publisher: Journal of Digital Life and Learning
DOI: 10.51357/jdll.v3i2.240.

Citizenship Education for Contemporary Democracy: Challenges and Gaps in Six European Countries

Author(s): Leif Kalev, Maija Hytti, Maarja Hallik, Niclas Sandström
Published in: Societies, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2075-4698
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/SOC15120355

Gender differences in online education

Author(s): Candan Erdemli; Judit Vall Castelló
Published in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1869-4195
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1007/S13209-024-00299-1

Journal of Social Science Education

Author(s): Hytti, M., & Sandström, N.
Published in: JSSE - Journal of Social Science, Issue 24(4), 2025, ISSN 1618-5293
Publisher: sowi-online e.V.
DOI: 10.11576/JSSE-8310

Emotional work for more holistic and transformative Education for Democracy

Author(s): Maija Hytti, Niclas Sandström
Published in: Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 2025, ISSN 1468-1366
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2025.2582164

Strengthening Liberal Democracy Through University Lifelong Learning - The Democrat Horizon Project as Example of Good Practice

Author(s): Diana TREVIÑO-EBERHARD, Carme ROYO
Published in: European Journal of University Lifelong Learning, Issue 8, 2024, ISSN 2789-4029
Publisher: European University Continuing Education Network
DOI: 10.53807/0802K3L9

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Emotional work as a pathway to change: A transformative perspective on emotion, discomfort and embodied learning across individual and societal contexts

Author(s): Hytti, M.
Published in: 2026
Publisher: University Helsinki